Under a DACA amnesty, American taxpayers would be left with a $26 billion bill. About one in five DACA illegal aliens, after an amnesty, would end up on food stamps, while at least one in seven would go on Medicaid. Since DACA’s inception under Obama, more than 2,100 illegal aliens have been kicked off the program after it was revealed that they were either criminals or gang members. JOHN BINDER

California: The sick man of the United States…. A
STATE UNDER MEX OCCUPATION!

“As one attorney general, Kamala
Harris, steps down to replace Barbara Boxer, another attorney general is
secreted out of the glands of selfsame power in the form of pus-spewing Xavier
Becerra.”

It
didn’t stop Becerra, a prominent Latino rights advocate who has served in
Congress since 1993, from pushing for the dealer’s release at the request of
his father,
Horacio. The elder Vignali, a rich Los Angeles businessman, contributed
thousands of dollars to Becerra’s various campaigns and a favor was in
order.

EYE ON THE NEWS

California Squashes Its Young

The Golden State’s suffocating economic policies are driving out a new generation.

In this era of anti-Trump resistance, many progressives see California as a model of enlightenment. The Golden State’s post-2010 recovery has won plaudits in the progressive press from the New York Times’s Paul Krugman, among others. Yet if one looks at the effects of the state’s policies on key Democratic constituencies— millennials, minorities, and the poor—the picture is dismal. A recent United Way study found that close to one-third of state residents can barely pay their bills, largely due to housing costs. When adjusted for these costs, California leads all states—even historically poor Mississippi—in the percentage of its people living in poverty.

California is home to 77 of the country’s 297 most “economically challenged” cities, based on poverty and unemployment levels. The population of these cities totals more than 12 million. In his new book on the nation’s urban crisis, author Richard Florida ranks three California metropolitan areas—Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego— among the five most unequal in the nation. California, with housing prices 230 percent above the national average, is home to many of the nation’s most unaffordable urban areas, including not only the predictably expensive large metros but also smaller cities such as Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo. Unsurprisingly, the state’s middle class is disappearing the fastest of any state.

California’s young population is particularly challenged. As we spell out in our new report from Chapman University and the California Association of Realtors, California has the third-lowest percentage of people aged 25 to 34 who own their own homes—only New York and Hawaii’s are lower. In San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego, the 25-to-34 homeownership rates range from 19.6 percent to 22.6 percent—40 percent or more below the national average.

No big surprise, then, that California’s millennials are more likely to stay at home with Mom and Dad into their thirties. Approximately 47 percent of Americans aged 18 to 34 lived with parents or other relatives in 2015, according to the American Community Survey—but in California, the figure is 54 percent. California’s younger generation, particularly in the cities, seems increasingly destined to live as renters.

The biggest losers from California’s housing crisis are, ironically, the very people whom progressives claim to care about most: the poor and minorities, who also constitute most millennials. Hispanics, now approaching a majority of the state’s population, account for 43 percent of the 25-to-34 cohort. Rates of homeownership for African-American and Hispanic Californians have dropped at four times the rate of Asians and non-Hispanic whites in the last 10 years, while minority homeownership in the Golden State now lags most of the country, notably Texas and the southeast.

Much of this can be traced to California’s long-standing bias against suburban development. Reducing greenhouse-gas emissions remains an obsession. But unless the rest of the country (or the world) adopts California’s strict emissions rules, the state’s regulations are likely to have little or no impact on climate change. Recently passed legislation will make things worse by imposing even more stringent regulations on greenhouse gases, mandating a 40 percent cut from 1990 levels by 2030. This represents the ratcheting up of a regulatory regime that will slow California’s already-torpid rate of issuing building permits, which is well below the national average.

California’s housing policies pose a profound long-term threat to the state’s social stability and economic viability. The state has seen a net loss of about 1.7 million domestic migrants since 2000. After slowing during the Great Recession and its aftermath, out-migration is again growing, even in the booming Bay Area. Some 29,000 more people left the Bay Area than arrived in 2016. The San Francisco metropolitan area saw net migration plunge from plus-15,000 in 2013 to minus-12,000 three years later.

Contrary to some reports, the people leaving California are not predominantly poor and uneducated. IRS data show that California’s outmigration between 2013 and 2014 was concentrated among middle-aged people with higher average incomes than households that stayed in California or moved there. This trend contrasts dramatically with Texas, arguably the state’s strongest economic competitor.

Here again, new policies will only make things worse. The Bay Area’s 2040 regional plan calls for concentrating 75 percent of new housing development on barely 5 percent of the region’s developed land mass. One alternative plan assumes that 78 percent of new housing in the Bay Area would be multi-family and 22 percent single-family (detached and attached). The regional Air Quality Agency has drawn up intrusive plans, seeking to levy tolls on all freeways, ban gas stoves, and urge less meat consumption.

Young people overwhelmingly prefer single-family houses, which represent 80 percent of home purchases nationwide for people under 35. If millennials continue their current rate of savings, notes one study, they would need 28 years to qualify for a median-priced house in San Francisco—but only five years in Charlotte and just three in Atlanta. This may be one reason, notes a recent ULI report, why 74 percent of Bay Area millennials are considering moving out in the next five years.

Regional planners and commercial chambers should indeed look to California as a model—of exactly what not to do. The state’s large metro areas are no longer hot growth spots for millennials, who are flocking to suburbs and exurbs elsewhere. Since 2010, the biggest gains in millennial residents have been in low-density, comparatively affordable cities such as Orlando, Austin, and Nashville. Ultimately, the battle for California’s future—and much of Blue America’s—will turn on how these regions meet the challenge of providing housing and opportunities to a new generation of workers and young families. A California that works only for the wealthy and well-established is not sustainable.

America’s “youth culture” was invented, more or less, in California in the 1960s, from the surfing spots of L.A. and Orange County to the countercultural hotbeds of the Bay Area. But today, California is turning on its young, with policies that ensure that most millennials will never fully “launch,” leaving many destined either to move elsewhere or become wards of an ever-expanding welfare state. The Golden State can still create an environment for growth and family formation—but only if it reclaims its historical role as the nation’s beacon of opportunity and youthful enthusiasm.

Joel Kotkin is the presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University and executive director of the Center for Opportunity Urbanism. His new book is The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us. Wendell Cox is the principal of Demographia, a public-policy consultancy, and a senior fellow at the Center for Opportunity Urbanism, based in Houston.

“The lifetime costs of Social Security and Medicare
benefits of illegal immigrant beneficiaries of President Obama’s executive amnesty
would be well over a trillion dollars, according to Heritage Foundation expert Robert
Rector’s prepared testimony for a House panel obtained in advance by Breitbart
News.”

In
California, illegals can vote: it’s possible and very likely. California’s
automatic motor-voter law all but assures that illegals seeking driver’s
licenses will get a ballot along with their license.

Miscreants
from any corner of the world can register to vote in California online, too. No
vetting, no assurance, no integrity.

Voter
fraud in broken inner city hellholes like Detroit and New York City cannot
compare with the ballot stuffing throughout the once Golden State.

THE LA RAZA PLAN: California’s final surrender
to fly the Mexican flag within 4 years.

Second, where is the governor of California calling on AMLO to
stop it and go home? More to the point, is California so far gone
that no one objects to a foreigner criticizing a U.S. president on our soil?

BILLIONAIRES FOR BORDERLESS AMERICA

….It’s all to keep wages DEPRESSED.

“This nation no longer is a democratic
republic...rather it has become a tool of the super-rich members of the above
mentioned elite who preselect our presidents based on their cooperation and
complicity with the elite’s ultimate goals. Obama has, in their opinion done
superbly carrying out the plans well laid out for him by his backers.”

While the declining job market in the United States may be
discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of illegal aliens continues
unabated, with many entering the United States as drug-smuggling “mules.”

The state should go after
employers who hire them, curb taxpayer-funded benefits, deploy the National
Guard to help the feds at the border and penalize 'sanctuary' cities.

“Illegal
immigration is another matter entirely. With the state budget in tatters,
millions of residents out of work and a state prison system strained by massive
overcrowding, California simply cannot continue to ignore the strain that
illegal immigration puts on our budget and economy. Illegal aliens cost
taxpayers in our state billions of dollars each year.As economist Philip J. Romero
concluded in a 2007 study, "illegal immigrants impose a 'tax' on legal
California residents in the tens of billions of dollars."

Casting a shadow on economic recovery efforts in the United States
is the cost of illegal immigration that consumes U.S. taxpayer dollars for
education, healthcare, social welfare benefits, and criminal justice. Illegal
aliens (or more politically correct, “undocumented immigrants”) with ties to
Mexican drug cartels are contributing to death and destruction on U.S. lands
along the southern border.

While the declining job market in the United States may be
discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of illegal aliens continues
unabated, with many entering the United States as drug-smuggling “mules.”

“The California-Mexico
border would surely be opened wide, prompting a spike in unfettered immigration
by desperately poor people, drug dealers, and gang members to what is already a
virtually lawless and out-of-control welfare state.”

Lou Dobbs Tonight

In California, League of United Latin American
Citizens has adopted a resolution to declare "California Del Norte" a
sanctuary zone for immigrants. The declaration urges the Mexican government to
invoke its rights under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo "to seek third‑nation
neutral arbitration of disputes concerning immigration laws and their
enforcement." We’ll have the story.

SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN, HUBBY LOOTER
RICHARD BLUM AND LAP B ITCH, BARBARA “BRIBES” BOXER…. Along with Nancy Pelosi,
four of the most corrupt and self-serving plunderers of America… These Cretans
redefine the term CRONY CAPITALIST PIGS!

“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become
a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This
is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen
McQuillan THEAMERICAN THINKER.com

MEXICO: America’s CRIME TIDAL
WAVE!

OPEN BORDERS: The Democrat
Party’s Weapon of Mass Destruction on the American Worker

If the FBI, ashamed and angered by director James Comey’s politicized antics during the presidential election, can start to shake off public contempt by helping Mayor Pugh, that would be a wonderful win-win. But no one should hold his breath. The FBI hasn’t really been an urban crime-fighting force since Prohibition.

Baltimore’s mayor would do much better to call in former New York police commissioner William Bratton as a consultant, both to teach her cops how to do their jobs and to teach her and her administration that no police force can succeed without unflinching political support. And Bratton should spend some time with former Baltimore Sun police reporter David Simon, who wrote The Wire with advice from his homicide-detective friend, Ed Burns, and who knows exactly how Baltimore’s past political corruption corroded lawfulness, honesty, and public accountability throughout the city. He can tell Bratton where the bodies are buried—figuratively and literally.

City Journal readers well know what Bratton would do. He’d activate a Baltimore CompStat, a real-time computerized crime-mapping system that would show where crimes took place and when, so that commanders could deploy troops where needed to stop crime before it happens. He would show police brass how to grill precinct commanders in weekly meetings, using the data to hold them accountable for not forcing down crime in their jurisdictions, and promoting or demoting them accordingly. He would establish an anti-gang unit that would catalog and categorize the majority of the city’s thugs, according to everything from their tattoos to their signature criminal methods. He would teach cops how to stop and frisk people on probable cause that they are carrying guns, to get firearms off the streets and thereby reduce the probability of their being used. He would teach them to enforce laws against disorder in public places—graffiti vandalism, prostitution, low-level drug sales, public drinking and urination, aggressively loud music, and so on—in order to show that police are on the watch and in charge even for small matters, and will therefore crush you for anything really serious. He would encourage them to disrupt the criminal infrastructure, from fences to stolen-car chop-shops, to make it harder for crime to pay. And he would show commanders how to make it hard for cops to be on the take in small ways and large, so that they stop being part of the problem and become the solution.

On this last matter, Bratton would need complete cooperation from Mayor Pugh and lesser city officials. It would be a Herculean task in demoralized Baltimore, always an unruly port city—from the days when its riotous English-hating Irish and French immigrants all but killed Revolutionary War hero General Light-Horse Harry Lee for his opposition to the War of 1812 against Britain, because he thought it an unnecessary waste of soldiers’ lives, right down to more recent times, when congresswoman Nancy D’Alesandro Pelosi’s father and brother were mayors for 16 years between 1947 and 1971. Just as a dying star collapses in on itself so densely that its gravitational force allows no light to escape and it disappears from view, so cities can become so corrupt and crime-ridden that the tax base flees, and decline is hard to stop. Detroit, Camden, maybe even Chicago and St. Louis, come to mind. Baltimore has so many advantages, though, especially its beautiful housing stock so close to Washington, that it ought to be salvageable. But it will take a kind of urban heroism to save it.

So it all depends on whether Mayor Pugh has the stuff of which heroes are made.

Myron Magnet, City Journal’s editor-at-large and its editor from 1994 through 2006, is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. His latest book is The Founders at Home.

Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

BARACK OBAMA’S ASSAULT
ON BLACK AMERICA: The Hard Numbers

In his black circles, spouting the truth about Obama is not tolerated.They angrily reject data confirming
that blacks moved backwards culturally
and economically after eight years of Obama.

As a
strong Christian, my brother is saddened that many of his black peers abandoned
Christ's agenda to worship at the feet of their black-golden-idol Obama. Many
black Christians ignore the truth that Obama was the most biblically-hostile president in U.S. history.